Cathedral High School - Pantherpix Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Death toll reaches 43. Holy Coss be- comes the last Jesu- it school to admit women. A women’s rights amendment to the Constitution is passed by the Senate. J. Edgar CHS in October. Sr. Loretto Thomas starts Cathedral’s Career Center. The Frosh football team is the smallest ever. The Hockey and Gym- nastic teams capture West- ern Mass. crowns. Cathedral conducts its first annual observance of Earth Day in May. 13 Pieta: a work of art desecrated 14 Robert Redford: ‘‘A star is born” 15 The Lennons in concert 16 Superstar: a rock opera 17 McGovern supporters 18 McGovern and child: the Democrat- ic hopeful 19 Cathy Rigby: America’s new star gymnast 20 Feminist Bella Abzug 21 Consumers: meat boycott 22 Vietnam: a painful reality 23 Fritz the Cat: newest craze in cartoons. Hoover, director of the FBI, dies in May. The name ‘‘Water- gate’’ comes to public atten- tion as police arrest five men for burglary at Democratic National Headquarters in Washington. Major league (baseball) players strike in April. The Apollo 16 moon shot lifts off in April. A rotating schedule is used at Cathedral for the first time in September. Senator Edward Kennedy visits Us!

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12 1 William Calley: victim of a situation 2 Godspell: a musical prayer 3 Pollution: an increasing problem 4 Tricia: a bride 5 Vida Blue: pitcher extraordinaire 6 Attorney General Mitchell 7 Pro-Peking demonstrators 8 Woodcock and Meaney 9 Spassky: a decision 10 Stu- dents in Irish revolt 11 Sesame Street Muppets 12 The President’s plane. ‘T1-'72 A violent clash in Londonderry between Protestants and Catho- lics and mass demonstrations become part of the continuing conflict in Northern Ireland. A crisis occurs in the Vietnam situ- ation as the Paris peace talks are halted in March. The bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of Haiphong harbor takes place. Tensions ease, however, and the peace talks are resumed in July. The new nation of Bangladesh is recognized by the United States. Michaelangelo’s fa- mous Pieta is damaged in Rome. Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to jour- ney to Peking in February. He also travels to Moscow. A ma- jor prison uprising in Attica, N.Y. is quelled by 1500 state troopers.

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14 1 Mexican drug raid 2 Mark Spitz: record-hold- ing medalist 3 1972 Summer Games in Munich 4 Apollo 17: the last planned moon launch 5 Nixon and Tanaka 6 Captain Spotless and Kid Cleanup: environmental awareness 7 POW's: a long awaited return 8 George Wallace: a campaign ended 9 MASH: TV’s adaptation of a hit movie 10 Charlie Chaplin: return from exile 11 Ryan O’- Neal and Tatum in Paper Moon 12 Sensational- ist Alice Cooper. The Vietnam conflict draws to a close after a period of stepped-up military activity. Although Henry Kissinger proclaims ‘‘peace at hand’’ in October, full-scale bombing of North Vietnam resumed in December. Howev- er, secret peace talks in Paris are resumed by Kissinger and N. Vietnam’s LeDuc Tho, anda cease-fire agreement is signed in January. The US and Russia conclude important agreements. A three-year trade pact is signed in October, and Brezhnev and Nixon design agreement to avert nuclear war after talks in June. Arab terrorists break into Israeli quarters at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, eleven are killed. North Ireland Protestants